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History of 11 delightful logos
Worth a look through, as there are some fantastic little stories.
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How browsers work
Geektastic information on how browsers work.
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Twitter's new apps just make me hate Twitter (the company) even more.
Twitter’s ground breaking innovation [1. Copying features from Facebook] continues: New profiles now feature header photos so you can express who you are more meaningfully on Twitter. Upload an image from your mobile device and see the same beautiful profile design on your phone, tablet or computer. Read more
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Marissa Meyer and The Katy Rule
Even if there was only five minutes left to a meeting, even if Google cofounder Sergey Brin himself was mid sentence and expecting an answer from Katy, Mayer would say “Katy’s gotta go” and Katy would walk out the door and answer the questions later by e-mail after the
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A story about service that makes you smile
You know that special smiley, tingly feeling you get when someone does the exact thing you want them to when you weren’t expecting it? Well let me give you a little example. I own a beautiful pair of headphones, made by Incase. They make the 90 minute commute from
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How we made The BFG by director Brian Cosgrove and animator Ben Turner
A piece on the delicious animated BFG film from the Guardian today: David Jason voiced the giant. I first found him when I was doing voice tests for Danger Mouse. With a lot of voice actors, all you get is them; David has the ability to stop being David Jason.
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My marvellous Incase headphones are broken at the moment, so I am relegated to the original Apple earbuds. For 1.5m of inanimate plastic cable they seem to have a superhuman ability to get tangled in a ball. If this pisses you off as much as it does me, the
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Tumblr and Twitter aren't friends any more
Tumblr and Twitter aren't friends any more From TheNextWeb: The enormous blogging platform Tumblr appears to have become the next property after Instagram to have its friend-finding privileges revoked. The option to find people that you know using Twitter has been removed from the site after its axing
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Are ad-funded social networks like Facebook and Twitter on their last legs?
Facebook. Twitter. When you ask most people what ‘social media’ is, chances are it won’t be long until they mention one or both of those. I’ve written before about how both of these are really just advertising businesses, but two things have happened recently that make me think
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How to stop your headphones tangling in your pocket
My marvellous Incase headphones are broken at the moment, so I am relegated to the original Apple earbuds. For 1.5m of inanimate plastic cable they seem to have a superhuman ability to get tangled in a ball. If this pisses you off as much as it does me, the
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What happens when your Twitter account is verified
Merlin Mann writes: Unrequested and completely apropos of nothing, Twitter said they wanted to “verify” me. His post shares a few screenshots from the ‘on boarding’ process verified accounts go through on Twitter. To my eyes it seems to reinforce the importance of posting bullshit celebrity nonsense on a once-great
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Winamp's woes: how the greatest MP3 player undid itself
Great article from Ars Technica back in June, talking about Winamp, the doyenne of digital music: “There’s no reason that Winamp couldn’t be in the position that iTunes is in today if not for a few layers of mismanagement by AOL that started immediately upon acquisition,” Rob Lord,